Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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