Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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 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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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