Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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 be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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