We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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