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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of 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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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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