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America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
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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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The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
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Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false therefore it is false.
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Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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Whatever we know without inference is mental.
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All human activity is prompted by desire.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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