Bertrand Russell Quotes

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

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Feeling More Propaganda Hatred Friendly Much Stir Successful Than Tries Up Why

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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World Stupid Doubt Trouble Full Intelligent

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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You Time Enjoy Wasted Wasted Time Wasting

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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Man Intellectual Certainty Which Demand Natural Nevertheless Vice

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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Knowledge Useless Pleasure Much Gained Useless Knowledge

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Life Love Fear Love Is Dead Parts Those Three Who

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

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War Who Only Right Left Determine Does

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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Education Stupid Men Born Ignorant Made

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

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People Die Think Most Fact In Fact Sooner Than Would

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

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Work Important Belief Nervous Approaching Breakdown Nervous Breakdown Symptoms Terribly

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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Happiness You Things Want Some Indispensable Part Without

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

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May Universe Purpose Nothing Any Know Ours Similarity

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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Patriotism Willingness Reasons Trivial

Sin is geographical.

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Sin Geographical

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

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Stone Physics He Himself Believed Effects Observer Observing Really Seems

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.

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Simple Believe Will End Paradoxical Philosophy Point Seem Something Start Stating Worth No-One

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

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Unity Human Just Continuity Inventions Order Truly

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

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Opinion Whatever Evidence Absurd Been Fact Held Utterly Widely Has-Been

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

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Inspirational Waiting World Grow Our Full Magical Patiently Sharper Things Wits

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

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People Criticism Because Departure Convention Conventional Fury Largely Regard Themselves

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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Fear Never He Coward Boast Dares Known None

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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Freedom Government Opinion Only Exist Itself Secure Thinks

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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Hope Change Happiness Man Enjoyment Enterprise His Man Needs Needs Only

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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Love Power Hatred Idealism Passes Disguised Much

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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World People Always Fools Certain Doubts Fanatics Full Problem Themselves Whole Wiser

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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More Living Us Anything Anything Else Else Freely More Than Anything Nobly Possessions Preoccupation Prevents Than

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

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Wisdom Fear Beginning Conquer Cruelty Main Main Source Source Sources Superstition

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

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Science You Know Philosophy

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

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Intelligence Remember Praise I Can Far Gospels One Word Word

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

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Fate Which Form Seems Destroys Idealists Ideals Obtain Struggled

All movements go too far.

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Go Far Too Movements

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

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Knowledge Facts Emotions Degree Inversely Varies

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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Wisdom Fear Beginning Conquer

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

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Fear Opinion Now Once Accepted Eccentric Every

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