Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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