Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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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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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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