One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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