Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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