Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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 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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Sin is geographical.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Man 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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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