Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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It 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.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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