Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Sin is geographical.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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