I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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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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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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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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