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Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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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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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
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[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.
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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
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Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
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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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