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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
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If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.
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Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.
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Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.
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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
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