Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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