To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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