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The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Thinking you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn’t knowledge (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live (Bertrand Russell Quotes)