Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is 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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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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