Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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And 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 believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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