Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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