It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELLRemember your humanity, and forget the rest.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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