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 RUSSELLI hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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