The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the opinion of experts, when it is unanimous, must be accepted by non-experts as more likely to be right than the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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