Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Love is something far more than the 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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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