Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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The 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.
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