The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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