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 Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | Bertrand Russell |
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kin | Bertrand Russell |
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. | Bertrand Russell |
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he i | Bertrand Russell |
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. | Bertrand Russell |
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never
of killing for their country. | Bertrand Russell |
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Religion is a matter of speculation. | Bertrand Russell |
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t
know. | Bertrand Russell |
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. | Bertrand Russell |
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. | Bertrand Russell |
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Speaking personally, I have found the happiness of
parenthood greater than any other that I have
experienced. | Bertrand Russell |
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The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s
knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter
you get. | Bertrand Russell |
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. | Bertrand Russell |
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The good life is a happy life. I do not mean that if you
are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy
you will be good. | Bertrand Russell |
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