Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLanguage serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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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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