Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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 that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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