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• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
  To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life....
• There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967), "An outline of Intellectual Tubbish...
• Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions.
  Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty....
• 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 -- The Philosophy of Logical Atomism...
• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• BELIEF: Something you do not believe.