What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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