It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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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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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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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