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Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
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To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
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Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
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Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
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The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.
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There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.
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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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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
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