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Main Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to…
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
- Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
- 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…
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
- The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the…
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