Quote: Bertrand Russell, a british philosopher, lived 1872 - 1970.
I'm completely hooked on Bertrand Russell at the moment. Many of his quotes are just buzzing around in my head, kind of annoying - but kind of nice too. I think I'll borrow a book about him at the library some day soon, because I have to pick up Agnes Grey of Ann Brönte anyways.
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
"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."
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position."
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
"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."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."
"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."
And, the final, one of my favourites,
"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Sounds like a chap i could get along with
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