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Out Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a…
- We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
- It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
- In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa…
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
- Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives…
- There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may…
- In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there…
- When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts…
- Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
- I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in…
- An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
- With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the…
- A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
- One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary…
- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
- Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
- War grows out of ordinary human nature.
- No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
- One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond…
- No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its…
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