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It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart they will know nothing of love and friendship.
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For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.
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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
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The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.
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To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
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Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
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Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
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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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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.
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... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. 3 means 2+1, and 4 means 3+1. Hence it follows (though the proof is long) that 4 means the same as 2+2. Thus mathematical knowledge ceases to be mysterious.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
Bertrand Russell
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.
Bertrand Russell
