One must care about a world one will not see.
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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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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.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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