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• Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosophe
  and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance....
• Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
  If you wish to be happy yourself, you must also resign yourself to seeing others also happy....
• Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one
  whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen....
• There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician's paradise where everything happens as it does in textbooks.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd
  indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible....
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd
  indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible....
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it. -- Cicero
• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something
  in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones....