None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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