How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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