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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
There can’t be a practical reason for believing something that is not true (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of a monogamous instinct can sometimes be perceived (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. P. 18 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
In a man whose reasoning powers are good, fallacious arguments are evidence of bias. P. 67 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. P. 108 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the Earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century (Bertrand Russell Quotes)