"Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to……" — Bertrand Russell
"Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness."
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Bertrand Russell
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only…
— Joyce Cary
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Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute…
— Sherrie Levine
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a…
— Matt Walsh
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
— Peter Brook
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Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.
— Sextus Empiricus
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Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground:…
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
— Ronald Fisher
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Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
— Albert Einstein
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