The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThree 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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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