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Bertrand Russell
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our poli...
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and ...
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christia...
“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating the...
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wi...
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those w...
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that ...
“We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledg...
