The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFew people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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 only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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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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