The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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