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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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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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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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