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.
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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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