To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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