Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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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 believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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It 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.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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