Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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