Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIf 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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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 demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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