And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
BERTRAND RUSSELLLove 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.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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