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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.
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 twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.
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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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War grows out of ordinary human nature.
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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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The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.
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Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
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Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
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The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
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Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
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