Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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