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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
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What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?
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War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
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Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
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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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