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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThis 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 wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Sin is geographical.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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