Bertrand Russell Quotes

So Far As I Can Remember, There Is Not One Word In The Gospels In Praise Of Intelligence.

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Not To Be Absolutely Certain Is, I Think, One Of The Essential Things In Rationality.

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Patriotism Is The Willingness To Kill And Be Killed For Trivial Reasons.

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Life Is Nothing But A Competition To Be The Criminal Rather Than The Victim.

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When One Admits That Nothing Is Certain One Must, I Think, Also Admit That Some Things Are Much More Nearly Certain Than Others.

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If A Man Is Offered A Fact Which Goes Against His Instincts, He Will Scrutinize It Closely, And Unless The Evidence Is Overwhelming, He Will Refuse To Believe It. If, On The Other Hand, He Is Offered Something Which Affords A Reason For Acting In Accordance To His Instincts, He Will Accept It Even On The Slightest Evidence. The Origin Of Myths Is Explained In This Way.

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Why Is Propaganda So Much More Successful When It Stirs Up Hatred Than When It Tries To Stir Up Friendly Feeling?

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In The Part Of This Universe That We Know There Is Great Injustice, And Often The Good Suffer, And Often The Wicked Prosper, And One Hardly Knows Which Of Those Is The More Annoying.

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Passive Acceptance Of The Teacher’s Wisdom Is Easy To Most Boys And Girls. It Involves No Effort Of Independent Thought, And Seems Rational Because The Teacher Knows More Than His Pupils; It Is Moreover The Way To Win The Favour Of The Teacher Unless He Is A Very Exceptional Man. Yet The Habit Of Passive Acceptance Is A Disastrous One In Later Life. It Causes Man To Seek And To Accept A Leader, And To Accept As A Leader Whoever Is Established In That Position.

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Fear Is The Main Source Of Superstition, And One Of The Main Sources Of Cruelty. To Conquer Fear Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.

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A Sense Of Duty Is Useful In Work, But Offensive In Personal Relations. People Wish To Be Liked, Not Be Endured With Patient Resignation.

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One Of The Symptoms Of An Approaching Nervous Breakdown Is The Belief That One’s Work Is Terribly Important.

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It Has Been Said That Man Is A Rational Animal. All My Life I Have Been Searching For Evidence Which Could Support This.

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Men Fear Thought As They Fear Nothing Else On Earth — More Than Ruin — More Even Than Death…. Thought Is Subversive And Revolutionary, Destructive And Terrible, Thought Is Merciless To Privilege, Established Institutions, And Comfortable Habit. Thought Looks Into The Pit Of Hell And Is Not Afraid. Thought Is Great And Swift And Free, The Light Of The World, And The Chief Glory Of Man.

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There Is Much Pleasure To Be Gained From Useless Knowledge.

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The Point Of Philosophy Is To Start With Something So Simple As Not To Seem Worth Stating, And To End With Something So Paradoxical That No One Will Believe It.

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We Have, In Fact, Two Kinds Of Morality Side By Side: One Which We Preach But Do Not Practice, And Another Which We Practice But Seldom Preach.

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Civilized Life Has Altogether Grown Too Tame, And, If It Is To Be Stable, It Must Provide A Harmless Outlets For The Impulses Which Our Remote Ancestors Satisfied In Hunting.

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The Whole Problem With The World Is That Fools And Fanatics Are Always So Certain Of Themselves, But Wiser People So Full Of Doubts.

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I Think We Ought Always To Entertain Our Opinions With Some Measure Of Doubt. I Shouldn’t Wish People Dogmatically To Believe Any Philosophy, Not Even Mine.

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Science May Set Limits To Knowledge, But Should Not Set Limits To Imagination.

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To Fear Love Is To Fear Life, And Those Who Fear Life Are Already Three Parts Dead.

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The Opinions That Are Held With Passion Are Always Those For Which No Good Ground Exists; Indeed The Passion Is The Measure Of The Holders Lack Of Rational Conviction. Opinions In Politics And Religion Are Almost Always Held Passionately.

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There Is No Nonsense So Arrant That It Cannot Be Made The Creed Of The Vast Majority By Adequate Governmental Action.

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Mathematics May Be Defined As The Subject In Which We Never Know What We Are Talking About, Nor Whether What We Are Saying Is True.

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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.

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No One Gossips About Other People’s Secret Virtues.

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In All Affairs It’s A Healthy Thing Now And Then To Hang A Question Mark On The Things You Have Long Taken For Granted.

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To Be Able To Fill Leisure Intelligently Is The Last Product Of Civilization, And At Present Very Few People Have Reached This Level.

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This Is Patently Absurd; But Whoever Wishes To Become A Philosopher Must Learn Not To Be Frightened By Absurdities.

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The People Who Are Regarded As Moral Luminaries Are Those Who Forego Ordinary Pleasures Themselves And Find Compensation In Interfering With The Pleasures Of Others.

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Mathematics, Rightly Viewed, Possesses Not Only Truth, But Supreme Beauty – A Beauty Cold And Austere, Like That Of Sculpture.

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I Would Never Die For My Beliefs Because I Might Be Wrong.

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The Place Of The Father In The Modern Suburban Family Is A Very Small One, Particularly If He Plays Golf.

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