Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFew people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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 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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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