It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIf 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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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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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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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