I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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