Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Sin is geographical.
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It 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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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