Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLRemember your humanity, and forget the rest.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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