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 use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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