Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNot to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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