I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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