It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELLExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Sin is geographical.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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