It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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