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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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 you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.
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I am firm YOU are obstinate HE is a pig-headed fool.
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Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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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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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
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Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.
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