Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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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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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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