| 89 Famous Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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“Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.”
Philosophy Quotes |
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“It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”
Property Quotes |
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“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
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“Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent”
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“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
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“Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires”
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“To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.”
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“No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.”
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“Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject”
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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
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“One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny”
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“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Bertrand Russell Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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