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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
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Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.
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The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
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As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.
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The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
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The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
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When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
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Change is scientific progress is ethical change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
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Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
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In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
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If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
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Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
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