Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLRemember your humanity, and forget the rest.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true 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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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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