How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Sin is geographical.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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