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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
