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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
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To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
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History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.
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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
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Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.
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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
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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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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.
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