The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFreedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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