Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Sin is geographical.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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