To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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 whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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