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Sense of duty

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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Conquest of Happiness, 1930

Was born on: 18.05.1872
About Author: British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic

Men who are unhappy

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Conquest of Happiness, 1930

Mathematics

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Mysticism and Logic, 1917

Fear to be eccentric

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The New York Times, December 16, 1951

Nothing is certain

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Am I An Atheist or an Agnostic, 1947

Fear love is to fear life

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Marriage and Morals, 1929

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