Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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