Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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