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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
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It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
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I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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I do so hate to leave this world.
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All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
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For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.
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There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.
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War grows out of ordinary human nature.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.
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A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility
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The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.
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More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
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All's well that ends well which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
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In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
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When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.
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