The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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 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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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