Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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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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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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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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