I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Sin is geographical.
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