The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSometimes 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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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 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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Sin is geographical.
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