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Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
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In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
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Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
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The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.
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It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
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