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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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Americans need rest, but do not know it.
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We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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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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