Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
BERTRAND RUSSELLHow much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Sin is geographical.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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