No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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