Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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