Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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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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