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«The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Birth Control
| Keywords:
birth control, objection
«Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Boys
| Keywords:
milieu, readily, sentiments
«His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable»
«Do not feel certain of anything»
«One must care about a world one will not see.»
«Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Animals,
Belief,
Men
| Keywords:
credulous, grounds
«In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted»
«Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
barrier, Best A, creative activity, real life, second best
«The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
bizarre, professors, realizing
«Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Love,
Men,
Power
| Keywords:
Bank of, Bank of England, governor, Governor of, World Bank
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