Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
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But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
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Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.
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But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
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We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a ‘reality’transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
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Theism is so confused and the sentences in which “God” appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
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It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
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If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist’s assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.
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The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
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