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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. (Bertrand Russell)
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. View quote
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. View quote
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. View quote
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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. View quote
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dont let the old break you; let the love make you. View quote
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If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts. View quote
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One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. View quote
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. View quote
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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. View quote
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Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda. (Bertrand Russell)
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. View quote
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. View quote
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts. View quote
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. View quote
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The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. View quote
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. View quote
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Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. View quote
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. View quote
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This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. View quote
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Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. (Bertrand Russell)
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. View quote
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. View quote
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All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point? View quote
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. View quote
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