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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
― Bertrand Russell
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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
― Bertrand Russell
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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.
― Bertrand Russell
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
― Bertrand Russell
Education
Stupid
School
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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
― Bertrand Russell
Life
Spring
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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.
― Bertrand Russell
Meditation
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
― Bertrand Russell
Errors
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Belief
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
― Bertrand Russell
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
― Bertrand Russell
Inspirational
Life
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
― Bertrand Russell
Life
Happiness
Procrastination
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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.
― Bertrand Russell
Love
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
― Bertrand Russell
Wisdom
Wish
World
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
― Bertrand Russell
Atheist
Race
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
― Bertrand Russell
Reality
Keys
Accepting
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dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
― 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.
― Bertrand Russell
Education
Truth
Religion
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
― Bertrand Russell
Wise
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Substitutes
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
― Bertrand Russell
Errors
Commit
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Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
― Bertrand Russell
Ideas
Blasphemy
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
― Bertrand Russell
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