Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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The 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.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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