Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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