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What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
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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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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
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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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My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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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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You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.
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America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...
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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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