To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To 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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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