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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
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I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.
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It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
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The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
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If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.
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The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.
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When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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This, however, is a passing nightmare in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
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