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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
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Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.
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We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.
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Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
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Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation
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For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
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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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In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
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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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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?
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