Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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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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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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