Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELLYour writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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