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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt 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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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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