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Bertrand Russell Quotes

Biography: Bertrand Russell was a renowned British philosopher, logician, and soc... more Biography: Bertrand Russell was a renowned British philosopher, logician, and social critic. He is best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Throughout his career, Russell wrote extensively on a wide range of subjects, championing social reform, education, and peace, earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. less

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

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"The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves."

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"The fundamental reason why the rationalist argument fails is that it presupposes a pleasure which does not exist."

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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."

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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

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"To be free of fear is the best condition of the human mind."

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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

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"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value."

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"Each of us is in the world for no very long time, and should strive to comprehend at least a part of the world."

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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

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"The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, the most admirable of human characteristics."

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"To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom."

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"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it."

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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

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"The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess."

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