Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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 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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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 fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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