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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true 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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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