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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.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Autobiography
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.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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 habit. 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 (1872 - 1970)

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