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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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