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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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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When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
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Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
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The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
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It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.
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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
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The camera is as subjective as we are.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
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