Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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