Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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