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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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