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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects.
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The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
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All religions are both harmful and untrue.
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One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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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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Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.
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Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.
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History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
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A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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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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