Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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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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