Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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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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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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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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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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