Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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