Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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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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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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