Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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