The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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 believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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