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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPolitics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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Love 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.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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