Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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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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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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