I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELLExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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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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