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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.
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