Bertrand Russell — Philosophical Quotes

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Bertrand Russell Quotes

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.”

Benefits Social Contracts

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

Philosophical

“I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.”

People Order Religious

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Philosophical

“What is matter? Never mind.”

Mind Matter

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Philosophical

“[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.”

Looks Heaven

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Philosophical

“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.”

Science Attitude Knowledge

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Philosophical

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”

Men Stupid Clever

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Philosophical

“What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.”

Time Prejudice Authority

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Philosophical

“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.”

Men America Equality

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Philosophical

“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.”

Religion Atheism Cynical

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Philosophical

“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.”

Beautiful Power Machines

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Philosophical

“Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.”

Science Discovery West Indies

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Philosophical

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.”

Men Facts Favors

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