Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAristotle 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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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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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