No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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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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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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