Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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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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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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