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.
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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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