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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell

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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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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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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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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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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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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