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Used Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
- I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
- 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…
- A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,…
- Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass…
- No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to…
- The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in…
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