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.
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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Sin is geographical.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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