Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Sin is geographical.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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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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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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