Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
BERTRAND RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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 symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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