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Some people would rather die than think.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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Worry is a form of fear.
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Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
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All religions are both harmful and untrue.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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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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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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