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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
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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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
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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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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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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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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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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.
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I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
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Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.
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The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
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Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
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Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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