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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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 slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.
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The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
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The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
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Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
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