Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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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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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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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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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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