Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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