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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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