"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.”

Source : Statement with respect to both Catholics and Protestants written after his work "On the Errors of the Trinity" as quoted in "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth" in Awake! magazine, pp. 18- 21, May 2006.
“Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.”
“Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock”
“Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society--its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.”
“When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.”

Source : Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
“I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.”
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.”

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