1. Bertrand Russell - “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

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2. Bertrand Russell - “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”

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3. Bertrand Russell - “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

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4. Bertrand Russell - “War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”

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5. Bertrand Russell - “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”

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6. Bertrand Russell - “Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.”

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7. Bertrand Russell - “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

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8. Bertrand Russell - “All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.”

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9. Bertrand Russell - “Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”

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10. Bertrand Russell - “Through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”

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11. Bertrand Russell - “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.”

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12. Bertrand Russell - “The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

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13. Bertrand Russell - “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

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14. Bertrand Russell - “Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”

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15. Bertrand Russell - “It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.”

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16. Bertrand Russell - “Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.”

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17. Bertrand Russell - “Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”

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18. Bertrand Russell - “Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”

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19. Bertrand Russell - “Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.”

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20. Bertrand Russell - “Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”

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21. Bertrand Russell - “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

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22. Bertrand Russell - “Change is one thing, progress is another. 'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.”

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23. Bertrand Russell - “Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”

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24. Bertrand Russell - “We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life spring.”

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25. Bertrand Russell - “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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