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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
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The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
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Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false therefore it is false.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.
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The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
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The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.
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A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
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