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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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