Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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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.
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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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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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