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.
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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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