Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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