So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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