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983 – “One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

-Bertrand Russell

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Posted in Russell, Bertrand and tagged Certain, Doubt, Imagination, indecision, Self-Doubt, Sourced, Stupid, Uncertainty, Understanding on October 8, 2019 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

945 – “Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.”

-Bertrand Russell

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Posted in Russell, Bertrand and tagged Accuracy, Approximation, Dogma, Final, Science, Sourced, Truth on August 26, 2019 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

491 – “If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”

–Bertrand Russell [Attributed]

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Posted in Russell, Bertrand and tagged Attributed, Bertrand Russell, Desire, Group, Happiness, Life, Others, Paradise, People, Thoughts on Life, Unhappiness, Utopia, World on May 28, 2018 by Chalax91. Leave a comment

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