I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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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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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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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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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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