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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 ...
“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great...
“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved ...
“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...
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculp...
“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”
“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.”
“Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myth...
“Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer...
“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...
“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know”
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
