Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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