To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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And 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.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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