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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Happiness Man Philosophy
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
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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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
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
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Desire Intelligence Man
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Healthy Philosophy
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Myself Philosophy Thinking
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person

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