I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNeither 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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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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