This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
BERTRAND RUSSELLBoredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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