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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    Bertrand Russell

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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #3
    Bertrand Russell
    “A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
    Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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    Bertrand Russell
    “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
    Bertrand Russell

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    Bertrand Russell
    “I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
    Bertrand Russell , Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

  • #6
    Bertrand Russell
    “Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
    Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

  • #7
    Bertrand Russell
    “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

  • #8
    Bertrand Russell
    “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #9
    Bertrand Russell
    “To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”
    Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

  • #10
    Bertrand Russell
    “Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #11
    Bertrand Russell
    “So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #12
    Bertrand Russell
    “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #13
    Bertrand Russell
    “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #14
    Bertrand Russell
    “Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #15
    Bertrand Russell
    “Sin is geographical.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #16
    Bertrand Russell
    “What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Will to Doubt

  • #17
    Bertrand Russell
    “Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #18
    Bertrand Russell
    “Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #19
    Bertrand Russell
    “Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

  • #20
    Bertrand Russell
    “I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #21
    Bertrand Russell
    “It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #22
    Bertrand Russell
    “One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.”
    Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

  • #23
    Bertrand Russell
    “To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #24
    Bertrand Russell
    “No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #25
    Bertrand Russell
    “I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.”
    Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

  • #26
    Bertrand Russell
    “Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #27
    Bertrand Russell
    “Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
    Bertrand Russell



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