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 RUSSELLI 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 RUSSELLThe search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEvery man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEven if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThere 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 RUSSELLThe secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFew people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWhat is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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