I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne must care about a world one will not see.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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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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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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 only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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