One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIn all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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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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Sin is geographical.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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