The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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