The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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