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.
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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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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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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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