Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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