Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIf 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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 would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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