The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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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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