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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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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
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I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'
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The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
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Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.
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Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.
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The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
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Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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I am firm YOU are obstinate HE is a pig-headed fool.
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The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
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Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
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A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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