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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo 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.
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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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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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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