Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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