Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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