Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnd 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Sin is geographical.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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