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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
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You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
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