Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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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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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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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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