Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the…

Quote by Bertrand Russell

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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it...

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it...

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I...

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I...

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer...

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer...

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more...

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more...

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such...

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such...

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual...

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual...

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish...

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish...

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is...

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is...

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope...

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope...

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should...

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should...

The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence.

The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield...

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield...

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to...

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to...

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead...

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead...

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is...

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is...

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing,...

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing,...