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When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.

Bertrand Russell's Popular Quotes

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr…

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

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At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders…

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Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

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