A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSin is geographical.
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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Sin is geographical.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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