None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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