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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Sin is geographical.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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