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.
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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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.
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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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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 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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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