Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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 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 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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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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