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 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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Sin is geographical.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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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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