One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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