Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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