Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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