Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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 demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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