Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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.
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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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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.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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