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 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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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