Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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