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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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It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
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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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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
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Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
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Worry is a form of fear.
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
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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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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false therefore it is false.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
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One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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An individual human existence should be like a river
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We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
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