I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLAnd 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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 – a beauty cold and austere.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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