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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
Analytic Philosopher
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.
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Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false therefore it is false.
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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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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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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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We must be skeptical even of our skepticism.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.
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I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.
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