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Bertrand Russell’s nine terse observations balance rational analysis with the spark of imagination, giving you a quick mental checklist for thoughtful creation. The brevity makes them easy to scan during a busy day.

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All forms of fear produce fatigue.

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

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Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they…

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Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear…

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Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over…

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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this…

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Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in…

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Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs…

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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers…

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All movements go too far.

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Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

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“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,…

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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone…

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Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by…

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason…

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I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

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I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to…

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The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement…

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“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.”

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“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This…

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There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the…

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