The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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