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I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.
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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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A drop of water is not immortal it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.
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The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.
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The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
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War grows out of ordinary human nature.
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Beware the man of the single book
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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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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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
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