The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLScience is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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