Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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