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"21 Bertrand Russell Quotes & Sayings

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Born: May 18, 1872. Died:February 2, 1970 | Philosopher | Mathematician | Historian | Writer |

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Fear Opinion Once Now
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love Caution True Form
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Fear Dead Life Love
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Doubt Vanity Those Existence
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Report Accurate Understand Hear
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted

Hang Mark Long Affair
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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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, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Symptom Approach Nervous Belief
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Catch Easy Fall Love
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Burn Life Bridge Cross
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Intimacy Intense Deep Known
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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.

Knowledge Power Astonishing Little
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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.

Think Teach Children Begin
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Bertrand Russell Quotes & Sayings