One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important. — 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
By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The causes of any widespread scepticism are likely to be sociological rather than intellectual. The main cause is always comfort without power.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's… — 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
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But self-deception of this kind (ed persecution) cannot lead to any solid happiness. In the back of your mind you will know… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The belief in a happy "state of nature" in the remote past is derived partly from the biblical narrative of the age… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“at first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off.… — 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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