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

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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ― Bertrand Russell

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.― Bertrand Russell

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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ― Barack Obama

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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ― Bertrand Russell

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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. ― Bertrand Russell

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ― Bertrand Russell

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There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. - Terry Pratchett

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead. ― Bertrand Russell

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

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