To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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