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Russell Quote 366 with image, n2187
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.
Russell Quote 366 with image,n2173
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment
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What do you think are the ingredients that make for happiness?
RUSSELL: Well, I think four are the most important. Perhaps the first of them is health, the second sufficient means to keep you from want, third happy personal relations, and
Bertrand Russell Quote 366 with image, n2141
The conception of duty, speaking historically, has been a means used by the holders of power to induce others to live for the interest of their masters rather than for their own.
Source: In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell.
Russell Quote 366 with image, n2140
The connection of democracy with individual liberty is not as close as is sometimes thought. Theoretically, and as a matter of definition, democracy is compatible with a complete absence of liberty for minorities. https://t.co/UUmgYfisUI
Russell Quote 366 with image, n2139
University teacher should remind the student that those whom posterity honours have very often been unpopular in their own day and that, on this ground, social courage is a virtue of supreme importance.
Source: University Education, 1959,
Russell Quote 366 with image,n2121
History should be taught as the history of the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not undue emphasis upon one's own
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Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 with images, n2088
Both in England and in America, the main force tending to its (=pure learning's) diminution has been the desire to get endowments from ignorant millionaires. https://t.co/odo0O6ziZ2
Bertrand Russell Quote 366 with image,n2058
To be really valuable, the concentration must also be within the control of the will. By this I mean that, even where some piece of knowledge is uninteresting in itself, a man can force himself to acquire it if
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Bertrand Russell Quote 366 with image,n2031
Mill relates in his Autobiography that during adolescence he nearly committed suicide from the thought that all combinations of musical notes would one day be used up, and then new musical composition would
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