We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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