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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.
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Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will pass away, burnt up in the fire of its own hot passions and from its ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, woth the light of morning in its eyes.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
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The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
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Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
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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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