One must care about a world one will not see.
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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Sin is geographical.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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