It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove 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 demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Sin is geographical.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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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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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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