Posted by: Emilio Rega
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Written on monday march 25, 2013
The best quotes by Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Posted by: Diana Pearl
Nine tenths of the activities of modern government are harmful. Therefore the worse they are performed the better.
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In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
Moralists are people who give up on all pleasure save that of mixing in other people's pleasure.
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For all the life I have desired to feel in unison to me with great masses of men, as it must be for who it takes part of a great keen crowd. Desire has been often so strong to induce me to trick myself. I have imagined myself to be liberal, now socialist, now pacifist, but in the deeper sense I've been never one or the other. Skeptical intellect, when more I would have wished that it shut up, has always murmured its doubts, it has cut me out from the easy enthusiasms of the others and it has transported me in a desolate loneliness.
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Posted by: Lady R.
If a philosopher is a blind man, in a dark room, that looks for a black cat that is not there, a theologian is the man who succeeds in finding that cat.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
Philosophy is an extraordinarily ingenious take on thinking wrong.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Fear is the principal source of superstition and of cruelty. Winning over fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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