I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIs there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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