Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThere is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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