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• What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. -- Bertrand Russell
• The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -the less you know the hotter you get.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• The depth of knowledge to be gained from books is much richer and broader than what can be learned from direct experience.
• Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love for power.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life
  the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind....
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• All movements go too far. -- Bertrand Russell
• Better Red than dead. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)