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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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