It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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 something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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 greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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