The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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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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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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