To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo 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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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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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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