Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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