The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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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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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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