"The wise man will be as happy as……" — Bertrand Russell
"The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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