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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

~Bertrand Russell

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Age Being Certainty Chief Hesitation How Live Our Perhaps Philosophy Study Teach Thing Those Who Without

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

~Bertrand Russell

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

~Bertrand Russell

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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

~Bertrand Russell

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

~Bertrand Russell

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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

~Bertrand Russell

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

~Bertrand Russell

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Belief Conviction Emotional Favour Finds Grounds Habit He Himself Intensity Logical Man Reasoning Search Which Who Will

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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

~Bertrand Russell

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 18th, 1872

Died: February 2nd, 1970

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