Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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.
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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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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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