Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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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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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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