The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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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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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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