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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
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Change is scientific progress is ethical change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
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