Anything you’re good at contributes to 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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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