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" 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. "

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

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Criticism

" Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. "

" A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. "

" It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. "

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Possessions

Anything

" No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. "

" The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. "

" 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. "

" Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "

" 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. "

" One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. "

" 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. "

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

" Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. "

" Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. "

Bertrand Russell

Belief

Worth

" 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

" I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. "

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

" Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. "

" Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. "

" 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. "

" Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. "

" The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. "

" I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. "

" A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. "

" Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. "

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

" The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. "

" If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. "

" Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. "

" Sin is geographical. "

Bertrand Russell

Geographical

Sin