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.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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