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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.

Bertrand Russell

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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The 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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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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 wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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