One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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