The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
From Bertrand Russell
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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