There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
Bertrand Russell Quotes
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligenct are full of doubt.
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.
A good way of ridding yourself of certain kinds of dogmatism is to become aware of opinions held in social circles different from your own. When I was young, I lived much outside my own country in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. I found this very profitable in diminishing the intensity of insular […]
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. Obloquy is, to most men, more painful than death; that is one reason why, in times of collective excitement, […]
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest. But the habit of foregoing present satisfactions for the sake of the future advantages is irksome, and when passions are roused and prudent restraints of social behavior become […]
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
