No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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 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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Sin is geographical.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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