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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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When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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When all experts agree, you need to watch out.
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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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The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
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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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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?
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I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].
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The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
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Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
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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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There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
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Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister should they let the human race die out?
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