The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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