Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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 demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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