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Bertrand Russell Quotes

«Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.»
«To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.»
«Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.»
«Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.»
«Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires»
«The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.»
«Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.»
«War does not determine who is right - only who is left.»
«To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.»
«Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.»

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