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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Sin is geographical.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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