The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEven if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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