Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThis has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Sin is geographical.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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It seems to me 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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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