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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service but no lover of music would agree.
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It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
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Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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A drop of water is not immortal it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.
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What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
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