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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.
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If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
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Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.
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One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
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Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
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The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
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A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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Whatever we know without inference is mental.
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
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The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
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There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
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