It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThere are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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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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Sin is geographical.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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