To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnd if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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