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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.
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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple I should say: Love is wise - Hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.
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All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.
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In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
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William James used to preach the will-to-believe. For my part, I should wish to preach the will-to-doubt. None of our beliefs are quite true all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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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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Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.
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In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
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Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
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A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
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