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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne 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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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