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Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would get into trouble.


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BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...
RUSSELL BRAND Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou...
RUSSELL HOBAN Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e...
BERTRAND RUSSELL We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi...
RUSSELL LYNES Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
BERTRAND RUSSELL This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have...
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