To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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