Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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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.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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