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.
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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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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