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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 main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
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I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.
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Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
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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.
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If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a new boy in another.
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Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.
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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
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Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
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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 best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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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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There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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A drop of water is not immortal it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.
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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
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I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
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A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
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The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
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