The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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