Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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