The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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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 one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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 good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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