A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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