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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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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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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.
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It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.
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By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.
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I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
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A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
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Ants and savages put strangers to death.
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European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.
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Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
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God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
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It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
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This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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