To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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 is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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