It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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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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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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