Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove is wise, hatred is foolish.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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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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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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