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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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 most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
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
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
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
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
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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Doubt Problem Wisdom World

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