Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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