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.
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.
- 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.
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- Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.