Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSin is geographical.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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