Friday, May 12, 2023


BERTRAND RUSSELL
Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, Volume 2
"The Triumph of Stupidity"
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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BERTRAND RUSSELL
New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.


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