Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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