Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell
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More Quotes By Bertrand Russell
  1. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  2. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

  3. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

  4. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean...

  5. Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

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