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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific every young person should decide on his or her own credo.
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I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.
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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
Bertrand Russell
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
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I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
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Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
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The camera is as subjective as we are.
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
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That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.
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All religions are both harmful and untrue.
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To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
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For love of domination we must substitute equality for love of victory we must substitute justice for brutality we must substitute intelligence for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.
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We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.
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