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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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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.
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But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.
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Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
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Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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War grows out of ordinary human nature.
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To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
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Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
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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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A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
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The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
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For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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