Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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