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The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
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Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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Without civic morality communities perish without personal morality their survival has no value.
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
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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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The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
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Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
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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 examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
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If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
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I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.
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