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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSin is geographical.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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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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