Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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 greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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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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