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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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 feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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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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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.
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That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
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... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. 3 means 2+1, and 4 means 3+1. Hence it follows (though the proof is long) that 4 means the same as 2+2. Thus mathematical knowledge ceases to be mysterious.
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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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Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
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I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.
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Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.
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The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
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Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
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The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
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When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
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