Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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