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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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 question of unrealityis a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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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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I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
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In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
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America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...
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In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.
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In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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The camera is as subjective as we are.
Bertrand Russell
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
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I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.
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All religions are both harmful and untrue.
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