The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal 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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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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 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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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