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All Bertrand Russell Quotes
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell in
Wisdom
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell in
Love
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell in
War
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell in
Funny
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell
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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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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
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