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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.

Bertrand Russell

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Energy Fundamental Power Science
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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Friendship Happiness Philosophy Secret Yourself
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Book Enjoyment Reading
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
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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Doubt Fundamental Intelligence World
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
If 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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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World

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