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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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Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
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Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
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To fear love is to fear life.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.
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