Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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