How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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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 search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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