Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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