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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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