Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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There 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.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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