In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted

Quote by Bertrand Russell

Topics: Ideas Quotes, Taken For Granted Quotes

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good...

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good...

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which...

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which...

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's...

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's...

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with...

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with...

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our...

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our...

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which...

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which...

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are...

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are...

Control your emotion or it will control you

Control your emotion or it will control you

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three...

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three...

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer...

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer...

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Determination is when you keep going, even when you know that you're going no where...

Determination is when you keep going, even when you know that you're going no where...

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are -...

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are -...