The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFreedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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