What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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The 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.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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