To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Sin is geographical.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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