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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
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 (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote? (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines (Bertrand Russell Quotes)
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy (Bertrand Russell Quotes)