Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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