Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
One must care about a world one will not see.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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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.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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