Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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