Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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