Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMan is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Sin is geographical.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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