Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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