Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNever try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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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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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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