Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMan is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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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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