Quote by Bertrand Russell
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. – Bertrand Russell

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. – Bertrand Russell

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. – Bertrand Russell

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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. – Bertrand Russell

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Reason also is choice. – John Milton

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Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence. – Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper, 1929 (Thanks, Jeff)

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