Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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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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