"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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"Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness."
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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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"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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"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
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"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."
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"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country."
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"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
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"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."
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"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."
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"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."
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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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Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
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"It seems to me a 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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"I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment."
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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false."
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