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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
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Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
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Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
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