The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Tag: Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.
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.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.