Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSo far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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