The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt 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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Sin is geographical.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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