Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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