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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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All movements go too far.

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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

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A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not goo...more

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are o...more

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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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 w...more

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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to kn...more

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In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics...more