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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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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
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Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
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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 is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.
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A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
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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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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.
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One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
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My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.
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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
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There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
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To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
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