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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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[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
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Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.
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Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.
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My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
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The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
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Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.
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Ants and savages put strangers to death.
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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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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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A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.
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dont let the old break you let the love make you
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The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.
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Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
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