One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Sin is geographical.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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