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If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.”. “No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”. “It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”. “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of ...
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Bertrand Russell. Life, Death, Fall. Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.115, Simon and Schuster.
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more) “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
The Will to Doubt Quotes. “Nevertheless the opinion of experts, when it is unanimous, must be accepted by non-experts as more likely to be right than the opposite opinion. The scepticism that I advocate amounts only to this: (1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are agreed ...
- Bertrand Russell quotes from BrainyQuote.com "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
1968 quotes from Bertrand Russell: 'One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.', 'As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive ...
Bertrand Russell. The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against ...
