What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Sin is geographical.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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