Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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