One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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