To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Quote by Bertrand Russell

Topics: Age Quotes

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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...

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark...

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark...

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward...

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward...

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and...

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and...

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love...

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love...

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are...

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are...

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some...

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some...

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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

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

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means...

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means...

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which...

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work...

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...

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head...

He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head...

Politics: the art of keeping as many balls as possible up in the air at...

Politics: the art of keeping as many balls as possible up in the air at...