Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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There 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.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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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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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.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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