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A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false therefore it is false.
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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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Only in thought is man a God in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?
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Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
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Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
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Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
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Worry is a form of fear.
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Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
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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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