Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

English philosopher and mathematician

Lived from: 1872 - 1970

Category: Philosophers | Scientists Country: United Kingdom

Born: 18 may 1872 Died: 2 february 1970

Quotes 161 till 164 of 164.

• What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

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• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

  ― Bertrand Russell
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• Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

  ― Bertrand Russell
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• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• introduction
• agriculture
• successful
• beneficent
• operation
• himself

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