Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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