Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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 greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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