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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLRemember your humanity, and forget the rest.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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