Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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We 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.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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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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