Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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We 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.
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