We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIs there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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