One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Sin is geographical.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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 fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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