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Bertrand Russell: Cocksureness and doubt
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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ”
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell: Eternal bliss
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The late F.W.H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but on being pressed, replied: “Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn’t talk about such unpleasant subjects.” -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
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Bertrand Russell On The Human Race
Bertrand Russell 1907 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”
—Bertrand Russell
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Hang a question mark
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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Cowardly fear?
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ”
—Bertrand Russell
Gossip
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. – Bertrand Russell
An individual existence
An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
