Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLEven if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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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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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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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