No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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It 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.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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