I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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