Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Sin is geographical.
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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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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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