Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThere 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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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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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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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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