Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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