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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. | Bertrand Russell |
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. | Bertrand Russell |
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection. | Bertrand Russell |
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. | Bertrand Russell |
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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. | Bertrand Russell |
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. | Bertrand Russell |
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. | Bertrand Russell |
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The secret of happiness is this : let your interest be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. | Bertrand Russell |
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The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. | Bertrand Russell |
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. | Bertrand Russell |
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. | Bertrand Russell |
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. | Bertrand Russell |
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so, at other times he thinks about other things. | Bertrand Russell |
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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. | Bertrand Russell |
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. | Bertrand Russell |
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