I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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