Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEven if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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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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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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