The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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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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