This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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