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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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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.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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