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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell
Funny, Fear, Philosophy
"Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Bertrand Russell
Challenges, Way, Problem

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

Bertrand Russell
People, Lazy, Looks

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell
Practice, Two, Ethics And Morals
Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Bertrand Russell
Inspirational, Funny, Patience

Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

Bertrand Russell
Doe, Finals, Dogma
Bertrand Russell (1985). “The ABC of relativity”, Signet

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell
Courage, Men, Light
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Bertrand Russell
Stupid, Men, Cynical
Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Secret, World
Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Bertrand Russell
Education, Art, Philosophy
Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Bertrand Russell
Wise, Love Is, People
"Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: 'Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish'". www.openculture.com. February 11, 2015.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Bertrand Russell
War, Determine, Left

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

Bertrand Russell
Play, Creative, Life Is
Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.228, Psychology Press

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell
Fear, Men, Thinking
Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.106, Routledge

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bertrand Russell
Perseverance, Persistence, Achievement
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell
Peace, Philosophy, Humanity
Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.565, Routledge

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Happy, Hippie
Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Bertrand Russell
Education, Truth, Religion
Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, Mean, Successful

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Bertrand Russell
Religion, Rewards, Duty
Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Bertrand Russell
Freedom, Humorous, Men

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

Bertrand Russell
Errors, Commit, Repeats

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

Bertrand Russell
Humility, Men, People
Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.176, Psychology Press

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

Bertrand Russell
Coffee, Cups, Looks

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell
Respect, Humor, Public Opinion
"The Conquest of Happiness".

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