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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.
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Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
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There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
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The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
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