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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
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A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.
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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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I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
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In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
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There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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We know too much and feel too little.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
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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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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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