I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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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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