The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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