A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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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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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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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.
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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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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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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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