Quote by Bertrand Russell
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as no

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. – Bertrand Russell

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. – Bertrand Russell

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. – Bertrand Russell

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My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. – Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889

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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. – George Berkeley

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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