The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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