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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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