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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.
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In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.
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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
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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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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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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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Affection cannot be created it can only be liberated.
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The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
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