Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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