We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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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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