The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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I 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.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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