Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFreedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Sin is geographical.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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