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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.
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It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
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Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.
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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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I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
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The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.
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Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?
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The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
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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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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
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The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.
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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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