Tag: Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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