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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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 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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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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