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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
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With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out the emotion is exactly the same as at a football match, although the results are sometimes somewhat more serious.
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Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
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In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
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You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service but no lover of music would agree.
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The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
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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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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false therefore it is false.
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We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.
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Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
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Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
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To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific every young person should decide on his or her own credo.
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The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.
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Change is scientific progress is ethical change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
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Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
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War grows out of ordinary human nature.
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
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Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
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