Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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