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Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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When all experts agree, you need to watch out.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
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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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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
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Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
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We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
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Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.
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