Bertrand Russell

A philosopher, logician, mathematician, and historian.

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17 quotations — 5 Funny, 12 Serious.

  1. Democracy is the process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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  2. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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  3. Most people would rather die than think.
    And many do.
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  4. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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  5. War does not determine who is right.
    Only who is left.
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  7. I would never die for my beliefs.
    I might be wrong.
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  8. 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.
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  9. It has been said that man is a rational animal.
    All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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  10. Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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  11. No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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  12. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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  13. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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  14. One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison.
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  15. The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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  16. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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  17. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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  18. 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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