Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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Love 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.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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