None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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