The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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