The 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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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