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 RUSSELLDogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know 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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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