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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.

Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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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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