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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from conventi

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. – Bertrand Russell

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Evolution
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. – Bertrand Russell

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Torture
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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. – Bertrand Russell

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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. – Alfred Jarry

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Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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