Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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