I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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