To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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