What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose 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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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