The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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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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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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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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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 nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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