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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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