Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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 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 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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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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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.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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