To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLanguage serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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