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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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 newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?
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There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.
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There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.
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I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.
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Memory demands an image.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
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Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?
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History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.
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Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
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A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
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Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
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Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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