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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to 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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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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