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" Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. "

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" Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. "

Bertrand Russell

Power

History

Men

" Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. "

" A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. "

" With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. "

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

" In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. "

Bertrand Russell

Result

Experience

" 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. "

" Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. "

" To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. "

" To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. "

" Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. "

" The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. "

" Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. "

" 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

Emotional

Belief

" Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. "

" 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. "

" There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. "

" Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. "

" Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. "

" It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. "

" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. "

" Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. "

" The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. "

Bertrand Russell

Family

Small

" Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. "

" What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. "

" Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. "

" No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? "

" The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. "

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

" 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. "