Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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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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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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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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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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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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