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Told Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing…
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious…
- Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher,…
- Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of…
- One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have…
- Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately…
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