One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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