The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to 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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