Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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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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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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