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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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