The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Sin is geographical.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from 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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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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