In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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