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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
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You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
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Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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