I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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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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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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