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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon 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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Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
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I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.
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Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
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Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
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Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.
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Philosophy bakes no bread
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Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?
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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
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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 do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly
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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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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
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Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.
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