So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
- Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
- Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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