The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNeither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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We 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.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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