Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIs there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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 sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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