Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
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Author Details:
Type:
Philosopher Quotes
Category:
British Philosopher Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 18, 1872
Date of Death:
February 2, 1970
Nationality:
British
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Related Authors:
F. H. Bradley
Jonathan Bennett
Benjamin Whichcote
Francis Herbert Hedge
Paul Brunton
Abraham Tucker
Gilbert Ryle
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Select Bertrand Russell Quotations:
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
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Quote Keywords:

Collective,
Fear,
Ferocity,
Herd,
Instinct,
Members,
Produce,
Regarded,
Stimulates,
Tends,
Those,
Toward
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Dictionary Links:

Collective,
Fear,
Ferocity,
Herd,
Instinct,
Produce,
Regarded,
Those,
Toward
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All movements go too far.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world...
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving...
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Do not fear to be eccentric...
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in...
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Ethics is in origin the art...
Every philosophical problem, when it is...
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Freedom comes only to those who...
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I like mathematics because it is...
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction...
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I would never die for my...
I've made an odd discovery. Every...
If all our happiness is bound...
If any philosopher had been asked...
If there were in the world...
In all affairs it's a healthy...
In America everybody is of the...
In the revolt against idealism, the...
Indignation is a submission of our...
It has been said that man...
It is possible that mankind is...
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Italy, and the spring and first...
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Of all forms of caution, caution...
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Order, unity, and continuity are human...
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force...
Religion is something left over from...
Religions that teach brotherly love have...
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of...
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion...
Science is what you know, philosophy...
Sin is geographical.
So far as I can remember...
The coward wretch whose hand and...
The degree of one's emotions varies...
The demand for certainty is one...
The fact that an opinion has...
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The most savage controversies are about...
The observer, when he seems to...
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The point of philosophy is to...
The secret of happiness is this...
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The slave is doomed to worship...
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The time you enjoy wasting is...
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