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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.

Bertrand Russell

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Man Philosophy Search
The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Control Direction Harm Wrong Yourself
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
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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Enemy Quite Religion World
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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