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Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
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 demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned.
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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
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I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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I am firm YOU are obstinate HE is a pig-headed fool.
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Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
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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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No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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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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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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Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
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One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
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More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
Bertrand Russell
When all experts agree, you need to watch out.
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Choose your parents wisely.
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Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.
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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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Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.
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