The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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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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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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