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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
To 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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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
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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Book Enjoyment Reading
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Greatness Happiness Live Quiet True
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Doubt Knowledge Philosophy World
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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Feeling Imagination Ourselves Pain Time Understand
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy

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