No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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