Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLBoredom 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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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