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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh - a process taking (say) 500 years.
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
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Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
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The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
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The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.
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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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