Echoes of Reason: Unveiling the Shadows of Historical Thought by Bertrand Russell
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The Roman soldier who killed Archimedes was a symbol of the death of original thought that Rome caused throughout the Hellenic world.
- Bertrand Russell
I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.
- Bertrand Russell
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.
- Bertrand Russell
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
- Bertrand Russell
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
- Bertrand Russell
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
- Bertrand Russell
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.