The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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