Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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