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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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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.
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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
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Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
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I do so hate to leave this world.
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
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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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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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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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