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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.
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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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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.
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Only in thought is man a God in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
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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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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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William James used to preach the will-to-believe. For my part, I should wish to preach the will-to-doubt. None of our beliefs are quite true all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
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Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
Bertrand Russell
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.
Bertrand Russell
Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
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Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
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In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.
Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
Bertrand Russell
