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Education ought to foster the...

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

For over two thousand years i...

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Even if it is indifferent to ...

Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

The Axiom of Choice is necess...

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

A life which goes excessively...

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

There is little of the true p...

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

There is... in our day, a pow...

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

A million million years gives...

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

But I simply can't stand a vi...

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

To a modern mind, it is diffi...

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

He will see himself and life ...

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

The time has come, or is abou...

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Marx's father became a Christ...

Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Throughout the long period of...

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Frege has the merit of ... fi...

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

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No other organization rouses ...

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

I did not, however, commit su...

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Emphatic and reiterated asser...

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

It is obviously possible that...

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

Punctuality is a quality the ...

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

Bertrand Russell 1415 quotes

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