Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNeither 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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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