Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMan is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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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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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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