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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
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There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.
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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.
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
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Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
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The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.
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To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
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We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.
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Only in thought is man a God in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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