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It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.
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There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere only triviality for a moment and then nothing.
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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
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Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister should they let the human race die out?
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You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service but no lover of music would agree.
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Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
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In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap.
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This, however, is a passing nightmare in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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Whatever we know without inference is mental.
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Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Some people would rather die than think.
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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
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I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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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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You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.
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To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
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