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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
The 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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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Sin is geographical.
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One Liner Place Sin
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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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Endurance Patience People Relationship
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
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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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself

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