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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOne must care about a world one will not see.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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