Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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