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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Easy in but not easily out, as the lobster said in the lobster pot! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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