It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have bee…

Bertrand Russell
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ✨ Unpopular Essays. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1950.
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The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1992). The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959, p.427, Psychology Press
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. ✨ Sceptical Essays
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1987). Bertrand Russell on ethics … ▶
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts. ✨ Bertrand Russell (1971). Ladislas Reymo … ▶
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. ✨ New Hopes for a Changing World. Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become … ▶

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ✨ Unpopular Essays. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1950.

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