| To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| 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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- Bertrand Russell |
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| I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. |
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- 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. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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| If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. |
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- Bertrand Russell |
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