No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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