One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA 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 – a beauty cold and austere.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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