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“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ”
― Bertrand Russell

“When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been able to produce in millions of years. I really cannot believe it. Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists? Moreover, if you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system. You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless.”
― Bertrand Russell

“في كل الاحوال ،من الصحي بين الحين والآخر ان تضع علامات استفهام على الاشياء التي كانت ثوابت على المدى الطويل ”
― Bertrand Russell

“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays