Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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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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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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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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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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