It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI 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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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