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" 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. "

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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. "

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Belief

" Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. "

" 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. "

" A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. "

" The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. "

" Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. "

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

" I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. "

" The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. "

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

Bertrand Russell

Fear

Coward

" To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. "

" So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. "

" 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 a paradise in a few years. "

" Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? "

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

" Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. "

" It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. "

" There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. "

" Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

" The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. "

" Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. "

" 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. "

" The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. "

" Sin is geographical. "

Bertrand Russell

Geographical

Sin

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

" 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 world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. "

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

Bertrand Russell

Family

Small

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

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