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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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