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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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