Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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 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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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