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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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