Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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