It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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 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 only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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