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 RUSSELLBoredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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