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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.
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The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.
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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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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
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Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
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What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
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That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
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It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.
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It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.
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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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