Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
BERTRAND RUSSELLExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Sin is geographical.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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