Bertrand Russell

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

age

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Bertrand Russell

age

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Bertrand Russell

age

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Bertrand Russell

art

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

change

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Bertrand Russell

courage

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

Bertrand Russell

dad

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

Bertrand Russell

dad

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.

Bertrand Russell

death

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

education

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