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Bertrand Russell quotes

1872–1970 · British philosopher and mathematician, Nobel laureate 1950

Russell co-wrote the Principia Mathematica, went to prison twice for protesting war and wrote some of the clearest philosophical prose in English.

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Source: What I Believe (1925)

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The real words: Smoothed from his essay "The Triumph of Stupidity" (1933): "the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."