It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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Sin is geographical.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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