The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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