Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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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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