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System Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
- What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
- The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a…
- For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same…
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
- In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck…
- A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.…
- I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is…
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