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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.
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Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
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Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
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When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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Love cannot exists as a duty to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.
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Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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