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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne must care about a world one will not see.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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 symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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