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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true 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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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