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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Aristotle 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.
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