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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
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 do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that chemical imperialism has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.
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[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
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The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.
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Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
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Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
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Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.
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My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides this No Man's Land is philosophy.
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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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Memory demands an image.
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