Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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