The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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