Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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