A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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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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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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