The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNone of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Sin is geographical.
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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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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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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.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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