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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.
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Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.
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It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
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The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
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The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
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The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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To fear love is to fear life.
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All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
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Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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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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Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.
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There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
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The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.
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Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.
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