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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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