Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELLYour writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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