Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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