Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
BERTRAND RUSSELLExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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