Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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