Tag: Bertrand Russell
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell
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War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell