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To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed

To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. – Bertrand Russell

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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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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. – Bertrand Russell

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. – Bertrand Russell

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Socrates termed philosophy the preparation for death; but should it not rather be styled the patient endurance of life? – The Countess of Blessington, Desultory Thoughts and Reflections, 1839

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Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. – Author Unknown

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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

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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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