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.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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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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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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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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