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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell
Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.