Anything you’re good at contributes to 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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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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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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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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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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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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 good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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