The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIn all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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