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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
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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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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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Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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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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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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