The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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