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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Category: Adversity Author: Bertrand Russell
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Category: Alcohol Author: Bertrand Russell
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Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
Category: Belief Author: Bertrand Russell
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Category: Boredom Author: Bertrand Russell
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Category: Civilization Author: Bertrand Russell
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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.
Category: Conformity Author: Bertrand Russell
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In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Category: Equality and Difference Author: Bertrand Russell
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Category: Fear Author: Bertrand Russell
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Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Category: Fear Author: Bertrand Russell
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Category: Feminism Author: Bertrand Russell
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Category: Happiness Author: Bertrand Russell
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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Category: Honesty Author: Bertrand Russell
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Category: Humankind Author: Bertrand Russell
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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Bertrand Russell
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Category: Ignorance Author: Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Category: Jobs Author: Bertrand Russell
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Category: Justice Author: Bertrand Russell
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Category: Kindness Author: Bertrand Russell
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The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Category: Marriage Author: Bertrand Russell
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
Category: Math Author: Bertrand Russell
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