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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
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Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
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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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Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
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The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
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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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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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All's well that ends well which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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