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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
