A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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