It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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