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Some people would rather die than think.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
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The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.
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I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
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We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.
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For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.
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[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.
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Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.
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Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.
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The method of postulating what we want has many advantages they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
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The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.
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Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
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The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
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