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Some people would rather die than think.

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.
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Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
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