In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThere are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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