The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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 who doubt his existence.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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