Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove 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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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