Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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