Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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 fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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