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• To teach men how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can still do.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
• What most human beings really want to attain is not knowledge, but certainty.
  Gaining real knowledge requires taking risks and keeping the mind open....
• The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -the less you know the hotter you get.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. -- Bertrand Russell
• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life
  the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind....
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. -- Bertrand Russell