It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Sin is geographical.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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