The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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