Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFew people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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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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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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