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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
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All's well that ends well which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.
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Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.
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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
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Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
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It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.
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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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Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
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I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
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Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
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Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.
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Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
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I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
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