Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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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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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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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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