I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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The 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.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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