The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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