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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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