It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Sin is geographical.
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