Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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 – a beauty cold and austere.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Sin is geographical.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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