The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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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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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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