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Will Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure…
- The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
- It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon…
- Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause…
- When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the…
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that…
- Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect…
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