There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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