In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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