“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
—Bertrand Russell.
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Bertrand Russell: Nervous breakdown
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
– Bertrand Russell.
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Bertrand Russell: Beliefs
“I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.”
—Bertrand Russell.
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Bertrand Russell: Love and duty
“Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.”
—Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals.
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Bertrand Russell: Mathematics
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”
Bertrand Russell.
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Bertrand Russell: Kind of treachery
“Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.”
~Bertrand Russell.
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Bertrand Russell: Collective fear
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and produces ferocity toward those not regarded as members of the herd.”
~Bertrand Russell.
