This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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