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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.
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The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
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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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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world
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Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.
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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.
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The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.
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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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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
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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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All religions are both harmful and untrue.
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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
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I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.
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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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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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