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Letter "B" » Bertrand Russell Quotes
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«The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them»
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Opinions
| Keywords:
dogmatically, entertain
«A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
agree, appeared, LED, obviously, philosophers
«Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.»
«Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men»
«Organizations are of two kinds, those which aim at getting something done, and those which aim at preventing something from being done»
«It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquiring, natural causes, natural laws
«Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.»
«Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics
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devoid, devoid of, sententious
«To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy»
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