No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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