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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
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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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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
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Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.
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Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
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There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
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If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.
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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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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.
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We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
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Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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