Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Sin is geographical.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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