Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThis has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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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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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know 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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