Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Sin is geographical.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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