Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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