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My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
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To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
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In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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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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Whatever we know without inference is mental.
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All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence good philosophers, never.
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.
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