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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.
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Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
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Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
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Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.
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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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The question of unrealityis a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.
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It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
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Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
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When all experts agree, you need to watch out.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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