I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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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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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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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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