No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Man 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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