It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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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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