It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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 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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Sin is geographical.
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