It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo 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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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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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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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