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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNone of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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