Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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