One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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