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The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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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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A drop of water is not immortal it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal.
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
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I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly
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The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.
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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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One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.
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Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
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No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
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The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.
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Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
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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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