The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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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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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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