How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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