The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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 secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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